“I have a responsibility… not to put garbage in the world. … If you start trying to figure out what it is that people want, you are doing what AI does. The idea of AI precedes AI itself…. It’s why they remake the same five movies every 10 years. It’s why they have a formula for what a movie is.”
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A Cybertruck for your face!
This. 2020 was the worst year of my life, bar none. I still, whenever I'm in a public indoor space, wear a mask, because I like that in the last six years I've only caught two infections total (both from extended visits to someone else's home) when previously I'd get every infection going.
Fully agreed.
A recipe for getting Postmedia and salmonella.
My "This was NOT Doug Ford's Plane" t-shirt has people asking.....
This is mind-blowing. (See next post in the thread for highest-grossing films of 2025. The contrast is stark. Tony stark.)
Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.
I love Toronto but this, below, is 100% true and is prevalent enough to (together with an infinite number of glass towers with street businesses that look like ass) be making the city ugly as sin.
What the heck happens to a person….?
It’s never too late to start masking — at least on public transit, the doctor’s office/hospitals, and other high-transmission-risk places. Be like my kids: eat that popcorn after the movie!
I am happy to say that I have, over the years, been simply too inert to get into Canadaland.
Well there it is.
I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again
Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited
We ought to keep talking about it. What does it say about Ford’s judgement and priorities? About his push to have jets land at Billy Bishop? Are they selling it at a loss? If so, where does that money come from?
And it’s this feeling of elation and belief in a larger humanist project that will help us stomp on the fascists. All they have is fear and resentment.
Fuck yes this makes my heart soar.
Bari Weiss eye-twitching, Olivia Reingold eye-twitching
I really wish more people had paid attention when several observers tried to warn about the technofascist and eugenicist tendencies of thiel and karp and that group, for rolling up on two decades, now.
And i *Really* wish the media & political actors would take the threat of them seriously, today 😕
good for them
I’m on my own Marvel villain trajectory, it seems: from liking the movies, to kind of not really caring, to wanting them to fail.
Be sure to read the whole thing.
The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.
I don’t think I ever sob-read as hard as I sob-read this novel.
Depressing as fuck but true.
I mean he may as well post a video of himself shitting on the residents of Toronto from his jet.
Let me get this straight: he took over Billy Bishop to allow jets to land there and then got a jet? Am I getting this right?
One of my favourite thinkers: his work is incredibly rich and a joy to read.
